Everyone I know loved it, but I gave up after two hours. Most disappointing game: Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It is, in my view, the most compelling multiplayer experience in the history of time-and if you don’t like playing Horde Mode, I’m terribly sorry for you. I probably played more hours of Gears 3 multiplayer than anything other than Dark Souls this year. “Best” game (that is not Dark Souls): Gears of War 3 multiplayer. So: My best game of the year that is not Dark Souls and that I have not already mentioned is Surviving High School. It’s not the most sophisticated game ever, no, but I really do believe that there’s something to be said for games that bother to make simpler, less-fraught human activity into an emotionally engaging experience, and that’s what games like Jurassic Park-when you’re not running from dinosaurs-and Surviving High School do so well. Cruel person, what’s not to like? You walk around and look at stuff and talk to people and engage with environments-and occasionally run from dinosaurs. So why is it that-as our pal Kirk Hamilton notes over at Kotaku today-so few video games bother to engage with high school? On this point, or sort of, I was alerted to someone having made fun of me on Twitter because I said earlier that I liked the Jurassic Park game. Here’s what I really appreciate, though: The conceptualization and characters and writing are all snappy and funny and just good. This iOS app really isn’t a video game so much as a digitally reanimated form of those old Choose Your Own Adventure books.
That said, I’m certainly no more or less well versed in modern video games than I am in the modern American short story, a subject on which I have taught university-level courses, so what am I even trying to say? Just this: I got to thinking about the immense folly of pretending to know what’s really going on in the world of video games in any given month, much less affecting the authority to pronounce on the value of a whole year’s worth of games.įavorite game (that is not Dark Souls, and which I haven’t already mentioned): Surviving High School. Just as narrow, I concede, is what I want to see games do. I like to think of myself as a broadminded dude with fairly unpredictable taste-I loved Kane & Lynch 2, for instance, and one of my favorites I haven’t mentioned is Ubisoft’s astoundingly good platformer Rayman Origins-but at the same time I actually do own a mirror and even look into it from time to time, and I have to concede that my taste in games is, at the end of the day, pretty narrow. Just the games for the Big Two consoles-the only games, by and large, I wind up playing.
#Surviving high school game o Pc#
These lists don’t include any handheld games or PC games or Wii games or iPad games.
#Surviving high school game o ps3#
For those of you who don’t click through, these are the release schedules for all the PS3 and Xbox 360 titles that came out this year. I think it’s because I looked at this and this. I’ve become strangely depressed since our colloquy began, though. Maybe this isn’t even a controversial view. All I need to be is riveted, and I’m increasingly inclined not to care about how I get there. It’s a terrible game qua game, has a frequently klutzy story, and I loved it.
Noire really clarified my thinking on this point. Of course, it might also be a turd, but it won’t necessarily be a turd. I think a game with a good story and bad gameplay can be something special. I used to say, “A game that has a good story but bad gameplay will be a bad game.” I don’t believe that anymore. I think it can make a game, but I don’t think it has to. I guess this is where I disagree with a lot of gamers: The game part of something doesn’t always have to be the best part, at least not for me, just as novelistic language doesn’t have to be Nabokovian for it to be “good.” I hope that doesn’t too terribly caricaturize the view that gameplay always absolutely makes a game. But here’s the thing: I liked the setup and the performances and the world and the script so much that the vaguely overbusy “game” part of it-I think you’re right about that-didn’t really matter to me. How dare you call Portal 2 disappointing?Īctually, though, you know, in one sense I sort of agree.
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